Dutch Chess Documentary From 1979 on YouTube

“In the end, it all starts with a certain love for wood.” That is how Hein Donner starts his monologue in the Dutch documentary Liefde Voor Hout (love of wood), The documentary was posted on YouTube in August 2012, and now a version with English subtitles has appeared as well.

Check2008, no, Dutch is not German. But both languages are closely related (also to Norwegian, Danish and Swedish, btw.)

As a German I can read and understand quite a few words of the other languages (some are identical, some very similar). But to speak it or be able to read entire texts you have to learn such a "close" language just like another foreign language (and you have to be careful about all those "false friends" in the vocabulary...

great video. funny how they smoke during the game. and I like when Ree says that chess players are sadists, that chess is addiction and stuff like that. the best quote is: 'they think everything is related to sado-masochistic-anal-father-murder, well...you know the drill' lol

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